Then your impression is wrong. I use unraid and have \\\ ower\\disk1\\Movies and \\\ ower\\disk2\\Movies both accessible as a single share under \\\ ower\\Movies. They call it User Shares I believe....

I must be blind or is there some way to integrate iTunes into VMC at all? I already have all my music in iTunes but would like it in VMC too. I know I can strip all the DRM off it and convert it but...

Your HTPC would have no bearing on whether your receiver will allow you to down-convert HDMI to Component. It will not allow you to do that regardless of the source... at least not on any receiver I...

I think you would be fairly safe just buying the XBox 360 HDDVD drive and hanging onto it as a safety net since it works in HTPCs. By the time your A35 breaks all the kinks as far as HDMI audio are...